The Spirit of the Beehive
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after a traveling projectionist screens a print of James Whale's 1931"Frankenstein" to the village. The kid is disturbed by the scenes in which the villagers murders the little girl and later kill the creature himself. She thinks when she tells her that the creature is not dead, but exists as a soul occupying a barn, that her older sibling and questions her husband. Every time a nurse from Franco's successful army, a Loyalist soldier, hides out in the barn, Ana crosses from reality to a dream world of her .
Released: 1973-10-08